1979 C10 Build

[mothertruckr]

Well guys im back at at it again. Ha!
This will be a build thread mostly, but i may seek advice on here too.
Let me start off from the begining.
I bought a 1979 C10 in october. was told 350 small block, mother thumpr cam, 305 heads, turbo 400 w/ cheetah shift kit, and 4.11 or 4.56 rear gears.

Well it had brand new edlebrock carb and performer intake, long tube headers, but was way advance on ignigtion timing. decided to hunt for probelms, led to us pulling intake manifold and finding a bent push rod, two worn lifters (one of which was almost worn enough to use as a shot glass) and a mild edlebrock cam with one lobe completely gone.
Heads were a 305 light port and bigger valves. block was a 350 with 3 cracks inside oil galley and a 9 inch crack on outside of block hidden by head, more than likely from block freezing.

Although it is a turbo 400 with shift kit.


Well we pulled engine obviously and lucky for me my bro had a nearly fresh 305 sbc with 400 crank and full stoker clearance'd rotating assembly and a lightly used 268xe comp cam.

So engine is built this weekend we are installing in truck.
383 stoker bored .40... i think that makes it 388?
aluminum heads, 2.05 intake/1.60 exhaust valves
1.6 roller rockers with 268xe comp cam (adv. lift is 480 i think and actual is 500+? in that range)
speed pro pistons. block was zero decked so we had to run double head gaskets to get compression down from near 11:1 to 10:1 so i can still run pump gas
BM truck ratchet shifter
2.5" exhaust with super 44's flowmaster

day of purchase


shifter


engine coming out


new heads